Word: beast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less to students) over matters that they believe to fall within their legitimate province. Hiring and promotion are two such matters. If I recall correctly, even getting the departments to raise the priority of recruiting minority graduate students proved a daunting task to those administrators charged with prodding the beast back in the 1970s...
...Beast From The East: You have to wonder about the Hockey East conference. In 1988, Hockey East was looking to end two years of playoff impotence. The top-ranked Maine Black Bears would be the chief catalyst...
Alberto Tomba, 21, Italy's self-proclaimed beast and "La Bomba," buried his ski boots in what little snow remained at Nakiska on the day of the giant slalom in the second week of the great chinook. He feared they might soften halfway down the mountain under the weight of his incredible confidence. Immediately posting the best time for the first run, Tomba waited only long enough to see that Pirmin Zurbriggen was slower before telephoning home to Bologna (collect). "You have seen Tomba once," he advised his parents. "But now, for the second run, you must turn...
...when he did win, the Italian zigzagger was overtaken by something close to modesty. "I am not a beast or La Bomba today," he said. "I am just a happy man." Two days later he won a second gold medal and wept...
...single omnibus spending package, which the president must ratify in its entirety or veto (thereby shutting down the complete federal bureaucracy), legislators can insert a number of pork-barrel expenditures to please their constituents and improve their re-election chances. That is simply the nature of the legislative beast...